February 2018 archive

"They Were Building An Escape Route" – Kim Family Used Fake Brazilian Passports To Apply For Western Visas It’s been widely suspected for decades that North Korea’s political elite – including members of the ruling Kim family – would obtain Western visas under false pretenses, but for the first time, Reuters has published images of …

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Did the CIA Sabotage Russia At The Olympics? Authored by Rick Sterling via Oriental Review, There is something very fishy about the Anti Doping Rule Violations (ADRVs) pinned on the Russian curler and Russian bobsledder during the final week of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. It makes no logical sense that an athlete would do a …

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Mapping The Top Tourist Attraction In Every Country Even as early as a decade ago, if you were backpacking in a foreign place, Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins remembers that it was not uncommon to rely on the wisdom printed in travel guides such as Lonely Planet or Rick Steves to choose your day-to-day activities. “Go …

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Ed Curtin: The Coming War To End All Wars Authored by Edward Curtin via GreanvillePost.com, “The compulsive hatred of Putin by many who have almost zero idea about Putin or Russian history is disproportionate to any rational analysis, but not surprising. Trump and Putin are like weird doppelgangers in the liberal imagination.” —John Steppling, “Trump, …

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What Would An "America First!" Security Policy Look Like? Authored by James George Jatras via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Republicans love to caricature Democrats as big spenders whose only approach to any problem is to throw money at it. As with most caricatures, it is made easy by the fact that it is mostly true. …

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USA, USA, USA: America's 4G Network Is Ranked 62nd 'Best' In The World (Behind Macedonia) The United States takes pride in being a technological leader in the world. Companies such as Apple, Alphabet, IBM, Amazon and Microsoft have shaped our (digital) lives for many years and there is little indication of that changing anytime soon. …

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"We Primed Ourselves For Discord" – The Dangers Of Exaggerating Russia's Role In The 2016 Election As we’ve pointed out time and time again, anybody who has read the Mueller indictment would likely assume that Russian agents were orchestrating a sophisticated psy-op against the American people during the run-up to the 2016 vote – and …

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History Lessons From Years Under Islamism Authored by Majid Rafizadeh via The Gatestone Institute, In Iran, my generation, the first after Islamism came to power, is called the Burnt Generation (Persian: Nasl-e Sukhteh). Our generation earned this name for having to endure the brutality of the Islamist and theocratic regime from the time we were …

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Why Washington Struck Russian Contractors In Syria Submitted by Nauman Sadiq, On February 7, the US B-52 bombers and Apache helicopters struck a contingent of Syrian government troops and allied forces in Deir al-Zor that reportedly killed and wounded dozens of Russian military contractors working for the Russian private security firm, the Wagner group. In …

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The US Is Executing A Global War Plan Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Washington is moving inevitably on a global war plan. That’s the grim conclusion one has to draw from three unfolding war scenarios. Ultimately, it’s about American imperialism trying to assert hegemony over the international order for the benefit …

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